[ExI] Self-driving cars to make moral and ethical decisions like humans

[William Flynn Wallace]

billk wrote:   people would like some say in how the car AI is programmed,
before entrusting their
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lives and their families lives to it.

I can't see laws mandating conditions that would make people not buy the
cars.  Protect all the passengers, then the other vehicle's passengers,
then consider damage.

Any other set of conditions, I think, will create buyer resistance.

bill w

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 9:38 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14 July 2017 at 23:29, William Flynn Wallace  wrote:
> > Surely any system will prefer saving lives to preserving objects.
> Whether
> > it should put equal weight to its riders and the other car's riders, or
> > prefer its riders is a problem to be worked out.
> >
> > Another issue:  there are many different ways to get into an accident,
> and
> > many other types of vehicles to get into one with.  If the other is a
> smart
> > car, then it's one thing, if it's a rig (lorry) then it's another thing
> > entirely.  So many different situations to program for.
> >
>
>
> I agree that saving lives is preferred to saving material damage. That
> is already designed into cars by way of crumple zones and safety cages
> that protect the passengers while destroying the vehicle.
>
> My concern was designing 'one-size-fits-all' rules for the car AI that
> would stop people buying these cars because they disagree with the
> imposed morality choices.
>
> Many people would want a rule to save the driver's life wherever
> possible, regardless of who else might be killed. Where there is a
> choice of who or how many might be killed or injured, people would
> like some say in how the car AI is programmed, before entrusting their
> lives and their families lives to it.
>
> BillK
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